Rep. Ro Khanna
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Well, first of all, the public pressure has worked, right?
It worked from Donald Trump saying, absolutely not, not going to sign this bill to signing a Democrat's bill.
I mean, who would have thought that the most significant piece of Democratic legislation that Donald Trump would sign would be the Epstein Transparency Act?
And it's worked in terms of first they dumped documents that were total junk in December, and now they've had a real release.
It's not a full release, but it's a real release.
So we need to continue the public pressure to get them to drip by drip give us more of these documents.
It was because of our work against these overseas wars.
It hasn't gotten as much attention, but next week we're going to force a vote to stop the war in Iran.
We do not like America getting into wars overseas.
We think that's a waste of our money.
It's a waste of the lives of our soldiers.
And that certainly Congress should be saying whether we should go to war or not.
So that's really where our friendship came in.
Now, of course, I've gotten to know him personally.
I have gotten to see him when he lost his wife, grieve.
I mean, you get to know someone on a personal level when you work with them.